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That the coercion was an element of the process is obvious from ii Samuel's defense of Solomon's succession, and from Absalom's rebellion versus David, including the tribes of Israel, and Jeroboam's thriving revolt versus Rehoboam's succession. David was, in the end, a Center Eastern politician, and can only have ruled by division and terror.David